argument, talk about where spending can be curtailed and where government can be made more efficient. >> thank you both for being here tonight. that is all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show begins now. >> good evening, ezra, thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the highest profile right wing think tank in the country is probably the heritage foundation. because they want to be thought of as a think tank and not just another run of the mill republican pressure group, it was a little embarrassing for them, when they announced their new president was going to be jim demint. he was resigning his u.s. senate think to run this think tank. he is no more qualified to run a think tank than i am to fly rocketsh

rocketships, he's just a republican politician guy, he always has been. but basically, republican politics is just what heritage does. even if they want to seem slightly more imparkal about it. it was a little embarrassing when they hired jim demint. what was more embarrassing, they decided to fight the prospect of immigration reform in our country by releasing a pseudo academic analysis of why immigration reform was a terrible idea. a terribly expensive, terribly bad idea to reform immigration policy in this country. turned out that under jim demint the heritage foundation had hired as a senior policy analyst to right that report, a man who's whole academic career is about ranking ethnic groups by their i.q. >> race is dinner in all sorts of ways, and probably the most important way is in i.q. decades of psycho metric testing has indicated that in at least in america, you have jews with the

highest average i.q., followed by east asians. these are real differences, they're not going to go away tomorrow. >> that is the guy who jim demint hired as senior policy analyst to crunch the numbers on immigration reform. lo and behold, the heritage study finds when a guy like that crunches the numbers. it turns out that immigrants are terrible. they're so dumb and they can never get smarter. not without better breeding at least. thatas really embarrassing for the heritage foundation. it's also embarrassing they never fired that guy once everybody reported what his background was when the report came out and freaked everybody out. after his background came out, they never explained why they hired him in the first place. the heritage foundation is still sights the report as if it's good science. here's the thing about the heritage foundation.

jim demint is the president of the group now, the head of research at the heritage foundation is this guy. do you remember him? do you remember david adding ton? during all of the -- i think during the scariest scandals of the bush administration, the stuff about memos saying that torture is actually legal and cooking up the fake case for the iraq war and everything elsewhere it seemed like dick cheney and dick cheney's office were really the prime mover behind some of these most scandalous things in the bush administration, all of those scary things had david adding ton right at the center of them. he was the guy they called cheney's cheney, when dick cheney wanted to get something done, david adding ton was the guy who would find a way by hook or by crook. jim demint runs the heritage foundation and bizarrely, also david adding ton is banned from ever traveling to russia.

yes. same goes for john yu, the justice department lawyer who david adding ton got to write the memo that torture is legal. he can teach at berkeley law school, but he cannot go to russia. also, general jeffrey miller, who ran guantanamo and abu ghraib in the early days. he can't go to russia. also, weirdly, pree berara. remember him announcing all those new york legislatures getting arrested. he cannot go to russia. by name he is banned. same goes for brendan mcguire, who's an assistant u.s. attorney. same goes nor this random new york judge. same goes for this list of people. we have a list of 18 banned americans, banned by name. u.s. citizens by name who are not allowed to go to russia for any reason, ever. starting in april of this year,

and going on indefinitely. this list is russia's response to 18 russians who are never allowed to come to our country. you have 18, then we've got 18. it all happened after president obama signed this law last december that's named for a russian lawyer who died in prison in russia. he died in police custody while he was investigating alleged corruption by russian officials. he had been in jail already for about a year when he died. after he died, russia went ahead with prosecuting him after death. there was evidence that he had been tortured and beaten prior to dying in prison, nobody was ever held accountable for killing him. in protest of that, this u.s. law was passed by the u.s. congress and signed by president obama in december. and it banned from entering into the united states, a whole list of russian officials. 18 russian officials thought to be either connected with this specific death or accused of

other human rights abuses. russia, of course, was enraged by this, enraged by the rebuke, enraged that the united states would try to take some sort of moral high ground on human rights issues, russia protested voer sirrously and it ultimately led to the tit for tat list, banning 18 americans by name, if we're going to ban 18 russians by name. it also led to a ban on american parents adopting russian orphans. and it not only banned american parents from adopting russian children in the future, it halted adoptions that were already well underway for hundreds of families. hundreds of russian kids, more than 300 who had already met their new american families, who had been told they would be going home to their new home with their new parents, those hopes were just ended in a gut-wrenchingly abrupt way. those kids were told that they

would remain in their orphanages. there are 600,000 children living in overcrowded russian orphanages. many are disabled and now parents in this country who wanted to bring a child here from russia can no longer do th that. it was may of this year when a really strange story broke in russia. russia announced they had arrested an american spy who was in moscow, they said, trying to recruit russian intelligence officers to become double agents. and, you know, that is a thing that is maybe a plausible thing that can happen in the world. we've all seen the movies, the circumstances around this alleged cia spy's arrest, the circumstances were so strange, that the whole thing seemed like a parody of itself. the alleged american spy was caught by the russians wearing an insane looking blonde wig as

a disguise? he also had a crude spy kit which included a paper map of mass cow and a knife and a flashlight and a compass. also according to the video and photos released by the russians, he was carrying a letter he was going to give to some russian intelligence official, a letter that began with dear friend. we're ready to offer you $100,000 to discuss your experience, expertise and cooperation. to discuss your cooperation, is there a nigerian prince involved? it was a strange and kind of impossible to believe story that broke in may of this year, when he got this perp walk of this alleged spy. that was just a couple weeks before russia announced they were going to sell one of their most advanced anti-aircraft missile systems to the government in syria. over the loud objections of the white house in the state department and the european union, since then, vladimir

putin has signed into law, a bill that makes it illegal to talk about gay people in a way that is not hateful in russia. can you not talk about being gay in a positive way or you will be arrested. that is the law. there's a provision in the law that says, even if you are a visitor to russia, gay foreigners and tourists can be arrested and held two weeks and expelled from the country for being gay or pro gay. being pro gay means saying gay affirmative things or displaying a gay flag or holding hands with someone of the same sex. it's a new law signed into law roughly six months before russia is scheduled to host the winter olympics. hanging over all of these developments is the fate of this young man, edward snowden, leaker of details of secret nsa

surveillance programs stuck in limbo at the moscow airport for more than a month, before he was granted temporary asylum in russia. between us and russia, things are not awesome right now. things have not been awesome for i don't know -- things have not been awesome since 1947 basically. but they're bad enough now on trivial levels and on deeply serious levels, that the white house today essentially said, let's call the whole thing off. the white house today announcing that president obama has cancelled a scheduled one on one meeting between him and vladimir putin next month, during the g-20 summit in russia. given our lack of progress on issues, such as missile defense, arms control. global security issues and human rights and civil society in the last 12 months. we have informed the russian government we believe it would be more constructivto postpone the summit until we have more results from our shared agenda.

russia's disappointing decision was also a factor that we considered in assessing the current state of our bilateral relationship. that was the announcement today at the white house. the president giving some behinds that he was going to go in that direction in his interview last night on the tonight show with jay leno. >> now, were you surprised that russia granted snowden asylum? >> i was disappointed because even though we don't have an extradition treaty with them, traditionally, we have tried to respect if there's a law breaker or alleged law breaker in their country. we evaluate it and try to work with them. they didn't do that with us. there have been times where they slipped back into the cold war thinking and the cold war mentality. >> something that shocked me about russia. i'm surprised this is not a huge story.

suddenly homosexuality is against the law. this seems like germany, let's round up the jews, the gays. it seems like that, you round up people you don't want. why is not more of the world outraged at this. >> i've been clear, when it comes to universal rights, when it comes to people's basic freedoms, that whether you are discriminating on the basis of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, you are violating the basic morality, that i think should transcend every country. now, what's happening in russia is not unique. when i travelled to africa, there were some countries that are doing a lot of good things for their people, who were working with and helping on development issues, but in some cases have persecuted gays and

lesbians. >> do you think it will affect the olympics? >> you know, i think putin and russia have a big stake in making sure the olympics work, and i think they understand that for most of the countries that participate in the olympics, we wouldn't tolerate gays and lesbians being treated differently. >> the united states is in this interesting position right now, in that our relationship with russia is pretty terrible. it is a very important relationship and it is bad right now. our president has to be in russia for another meeting coming up in a couple weeks. even though he's going to be in russia, he's not going to talk to putin while he's there, and they've announced it weeks in advance. the fact that russia's about to host this giant legitimately international, global event. which is the winter olympics next year. and their new anti-gay law has become a focus not just in the

united states, but a broader worry and concern, and increasingly protest around the world. steven fry today writing to david cameron in the u.k., civilized nations should not give russia the honor of hosting the olympics, arguing that an absolute ban on the russian winter olympics of 2014 is simply essential, stage them elsewhere at all costs. putin cannot be seen to have the approval of the civilized world. so what happens next here? joining us now is charles cane, a professor at georgetown university. author of odessa, genius and death in a city of dreams. thank you for being with us tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> do you think it is important in the larger scope of u.s./russian relations for president obama to have cancelled this meeting with the russian president and not made any bones about it? >> well, i think it's an important step certainly, but i think for most of the people who were involved in making that decision, this was seen as the

appropriate and prudent step to take. that is he's not cancelling his trip to russia, he's certainly going to go to the g-20 summit. he'll probably meet puten around that summit itself, he'll be in the photograph with him. he'll be seen at the meetings with him. at the same time. it's very important not to have a high level summit at a time when relations are particularly bad between russia and the united states. and i think if you look at what's going on at lower levels within the u.s. government, those talks are continuing with the defense officials, with foreign ministry officials in russia. at all different kinds of levels, this isn't a break in relations, so much as it is an important symbol of how bad things have become. but really nothing more than symbolic at this stage. >> in terms of the statement from the u.s. government and sort of public rebuke of

president putin, does he wear this as a badge of honor at home? does that buy him points domestically? oar does it look bad more him domestically? >> i think it buys him some points. americans probably have a tendency to overestimate what we do matters. the fact is, that putin remains among many russians really quite popular. anything he can do to be seen as a strong leader or standing up to the united states, exposing what he considers the double standards of the u.s. and the international system, this does buy him points at home. but the fact is, if you look at the russian blogs and russian media, the latest announcement really hasn't garnered the kind of attention in moscow or elsewhere that it's garnered in the united states. >> how about the issue that president obama touched on last night on the tonight show of all places about the olympics and whether or not russia cares very much about international opinion, particularly on this issue of gay rights heading toward the olympics, it seems

like with this much lead time, it might become a very big demonstrative conflict for russia at those games. >> well it could be. and to me, this is what is shaping up to be the really important issue. not just in u.s./russia relations, but in russia's position in the world. russia is taking these olympics very seriously, they're taking place this coming february, russia is launching the largest torch ceremony. the longest torch ceremony held ever. 65,000 kilometers the torch is going to go across every constituent part of the russian federation. this is a chance for russia to demonstrate its status, showcase itself to the world. but the question of gay and lesbian rights is now becoming not just a side issue, which i think russians always saw it as being, but it's going to become one of the central issues in the way that russia is perceived.

this is a step in my mind a step forward for the whole question of gay and lesbian rights. this is now a human rights issue. and i think over the coming months, we're going to see more and more countries following the path that steven fry wants britain to fall. >> charles king, thank you very much for your time tonight. it's helpful to have you here, appreciate it. lots more ahead tonight. including an amazing real life globetrotting spy drama that does not involve a funny wig. [ tires screech ] [ beeping ] ♪ [ male announcer ] we don't just certify our pre-owned vehicles. we inspect, analyze and recondition each one, until it's nothing short of a genuine certified pre-owned... mercedes-benz for the next new owner. ♪

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say you were traveling in central america, you are, say, in panama, and you decide you would like to visit costa rica, in order to get there, you may consider going through the border town of paso canoas. it's described as slightly seedy and completely devoid of charm. that said, there's likely to not be any people there. this whole thing took us all of five minutes, including lining up. as you may imagine, most travelers leave with little more than a passing glance from border officials at their passport stamp. might be handy depending on who

you are and why you're traveling. on the morning of july 18th, an american man traveling alone, tried to make that routine passing glance. but instead, his passport triggered an alert from interester pole, not from the band interpoll, although that would be night, but from the actual interpol. the costa rican official called interpol for some direction having gotten that alert. interpol told him to not hold the man in costa rica, the man there makes it difficult to extradite someone wanted in another country. instead, they recommended they send him back into panama, and back he went. because he was apparently determined to get into costa rica, he tried again. and the same thing happened, costa rica said no, and they

sent him back to panama again. for this time, for whatever reason, the guards on the panama said they started feeling that alert as well. and the panamanian police arrived and took the american into custody. the american man picked up at that border crossing that day is a spy. was a spy at least, an american who is a retired employee of the cia. he used to be the cia station chief in milan, in italy. his name is robert suldan lady, the guy on the left. the reason him crossing the border set off an interpol alert, the italian government has tried him, convicted him and sentenced him to prison for something he participated in when he was cia station chief in milan. it was 10 years ago. an egyptian preacher disappeared off the streets of milan, he had just stepped out of his apartment to head to mosque for noon prayers and he was snatched off the street in broad daylight. a man flung open the side door

of the van, two other men grabbed him, and the van sped off. he was taken to an american military base in italy, then to an american military base in germany, and then he was flown by learjet to chai row. where he said he was horribly tore tored for a long time. egypt decided not to charge him with anything, and they released him a few years later and lose a free man. in 2007, four years after he disappeared off the street in milan, the italian authorities issued an arrest warrant for two dozen other americans that they said were involved in the kidnapping. the warrant cited kidnapping, seizing a terrorist suspect without a warrant. transferring the person to another country, often one known to employ torture. the cia had grabbed him as part of the u.s. extraordinary rendition program, which was policy in the bush years and arguably maybe still in the

obama years. people suspected of terrorism grabbed in one country and not taken back to the u.s., but instead brought to some third country for questioning. and torture or whatever. it was definitely policy in the bush years, set in washington. but it's not like these washington policy makers were traveling around the world carrying it out themselves, someone down the food chain had to carry this policy out out in the field. a recent review by the open society institute says this was done by the u.s. more than 130 times after 9/11, regardless of the laws of the countries in which it happened. this thing in milan, this is the only rendition case where the americans who did it got criminally charged as kids napper nappers. robert had planned to retire in italy, had a very nice house there, then all this unpleasantness happened. then came the investigation, the arrest ant, by the time the arrest warrant was out, he fled italy entirely. no one believes that most of the names on that charge sheet were

actual real people, they were probably aliases since most of these folks were working under cover. but robert suldan lady were real. and none of the others were in the courtroom to face prosecution. in 2009 the wruling came down. the judge convicted him and 22 other americans for that kidnapping of that cleric in milan. remember, robert was convicted he got nine years, he was the milan station chief for the cia. one interesting thing about that trial, is that the cia station chief not in milan, but in rome and two other people were given diplomatic immunity at that trial. at that trial, in 2009 they all got off, the station chief in rome got immunity, not the station chief in milan? ya is that. could more of these american defendants have been given immunity? turns out to be a good question. he doesn't get immunity, he gets

convicted. he gets nine years. all of them are in the wind, poof. italy wants them, but they don't have them. and then a few weeks ago out of nowhere, robert suldan lady turns up, he gets arrested while trying to cross the border in panama. it's crazy, probably the only place in the world that he can be sure is not going to extradite him back to italy is in the united states. the u.s. government is who he was working for, whose policies he was carrying out when he was doing the thing that got him arrested and tried and convicted. why is he not in the united states? and instead, he's in central america trying to cross borders? and what is panama going to do now that they got him. italy says they're psyched to have found him, psyched to have gotten him back. is panama really going to send him to the italians to go to prison after all these years? will he be the one person in the world to serve prison time for this u.s. government policy of extraordinary rendition?

what's going to happen? it's fascinating, right? how does it resolve? dude disappears again, after getting arrested in panama. he disappears again. and it's not that he geared because he's about to turn up in italy. >> i have a couple. >> there's a report that robert lady who was in panama, being detained, that he's on a plane bound for the united states. is -- do you know what his status is, and can you tell us what his situation is? >> it's my understanding that he is in fact enroute or back in the united states. beyond that, i have no further details. >> do you know when he left? >> i don't have any further details. >> either enroute or back in the united states. they don't know? today katherine asked about it

aga again. >> robert lady and his whereabouts and any contact you've had with the italians on this case? >> well, i know that a couple weeks ago, my colleague marie mentioned that he was enroute back to the united states, and he was -- and obviously returned, he's a private citizen, we don't track his movements. beyond that, i don't have any update. >> any contact between the u.s. and the italians in this case. >> i don't have any update on that either. >> i don't have any update beyond what i just shared on him. he's a private citizen. he's returned to the united states. >> he's a private citizen, he returned to the united states, and beyond that, nothing, ed that nada, zip. the trail goes cold, gone again. this guy who naturally we do not even have a real picture of, this former cia spy has disappeared yet again. he's still a wanted man in italy, as are the 22 other

americans, or at least the 22 other american names convicted alongside him. even though he has now disappeared again, reportedly somewhere in the united states, we're not getting any explanation. now one of his colleagues in the cia who was convicted alongside him has come forward to tell her side of the story. her name is sabrina, she was also convicted in that italian court. she says that she and the other americans con victimed in absentia in 2009 did not cook up this abu omar plan on their own. another cia in italy, the one who got immunity at that trial. the rome station chief, he was the u.s. official who was hell bent on that. misled their bosses that he was back in d.c. the rest of them, she says, officers like her were thrown under the bus. left out in the cold by their

own government. we asked the cia for comment tonight about the accusations from this former officer. cia naturally is not talking. but sabrina desousa is talking and she joins us for the interview straight ahead. [ school bell rings ]

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in 2009 in italy, 23 americans were convicted of kidnapping. an egyptian cleric had been pulled off the streets. they were sentenced to four or nine years in prison. they were convicted in absentia. most of the names of those on the list may have been aliases, since these were operatives, and in some cases working under cover. of the very few named officers in the case he faces six years in an italian prison if italy can find him in the world and bring him back. a few weeks ago he surfaced for the first time in years. since then he's disappeared again. panama did not send him back to italy. last they knew. he had flown back to the u.s. and now who knows.

another officer on the hook is this woman. she denied working for the cia, and denied any involvement in the rendition of the cleric off that milan street. now, sabrina says the cia officer who planned the kidnapping was sent to egypt. he was tortured and eventually released without being charged with anything. sabrina desousa is now essentially blowing the whistle on the whole operation, saying it was the botched work of another cia station chief who was bucking for promotion and able to finagle diplomatic immunity to protect himself from prosecution at least initially. as all these other americans went down. the u.s. government has thrown her and the others under the bus. for sabrina de seuss saturday to

come out and naming names -- joining us now is sabrina desousa. thank you for being leer. >> thank you. >> is the publicly available information, a lot of which i've summarized here tonight. is it basically factual? are we getting anything wrong in the public understanding of the case? >> no, you got a lot of things right. but the focus of this has not been on the senior officials that went along with the plan. >> what do you mean? >> he wanted this rendition to be done. >> he was the station chief in rome? >> he had to make a case, not only to cia headquarters, but because this was a nato country the case had to be made all the

way up to condoleezza rice. and then that had to go up to george bush who had to approve it as the president has to approve the rendition. the only way costelli could get approval is if silt vee yo berlusconi was on board of with it, and the head of the cia was on board with it. the italians had to be the law enforcement group on the ground to arrest. >> they had to be the ones to grab him? >> they had to be the ones to arrest him, and then turn him over to the americans. that's the we it was supposed to function. the italian intelligence decided they were not going to be part of this. and silvio burr leerlusconi sai absolutely not. they didn't have the authority to do this for berlusconi.

they were not allowed to be involved in renditions. and finally, they also discovered a few weeks later, that the italian law enforcement had omar under surveillance for two years. and they could not disrupt -- >> they picked up because -- >> they were not allowed by law to disrupt that investigation. >> if jeffrey costelli was the architect of this whole plan, how was he able to get diplomatic immunity initially when none of the other -- >> that's a good question. officially, there's nothing on the record that says the u.s. invoked immunity for him. neither that they waived or invoked immunity for the rest of us. it may have been something that happened behind the scenes or the judge -- and now the judge has to explain why he just out of the blue gave diplomatic immunity to these three

individuals. >> it's strange in connection with you, as someone who's working with the cia, obviously, you were not a station chief at the time, what was your job. >> it doesn't matter if you were station chief or not. you have immunity because you're accredited to that particular country. so, you know, the italians agree that their diplomats in that country will not face criminal prosecutions or anything like that, the problem in italy, the judiciary is separate from the government of italy, which is why we have gotten to a bad situation where italy has set a precedent for diplomats to be prosecuted. >> right. do you have any insight into the movements or the me dick amt of robert suldan lady, who just turned up in panama, who looked like he might be getting sent back to italy, but has turned up in the united states. >> i don't have any insight. but listening to your clips, you make a important point. i'm going through this right now. this is state department and the government saying we don't know

who he is, where he is. he's a citizen, a private citizen. this is what i've faced. since 2009 when i left the cia i've been on my own fighting this matter, seriously. i found my own lawyers, my own resources, i had to sue the government to get a defense in italy. for the government to just abandon everyone and say, well, we don't know what lady is doing. he has an interpol conviction against him. where is his government in protecting their diplomats? what kind of message does it send when for the first time in 55 years, the military allowed a senior colonel to be convicted. >> they secured a pardon for the colonel thereafter. >> yes, that was completely political. that was one of the reasons i decided to come out. there was this debate about, he should have been extradited to italy. absolutely not, you're supposed to protect these -- particularly when it's other people who really messed this up.

bob absolutely did not want to have this rendition take place at all. but he was pressured by rome to do it. >> you feel like it is the policy that ought to be on trial, if there is going to be a trial, if there are objections to the way this went down, it is the policy and the policy makers who should be on trial for this, not the people who carried it out? >> absolutely. rachel at the end of the day, it's u.s. policy, the anger again -- and the frustration for victims and, you know, against american policy is directed at whom, those who are vulnerable and accessible. it's our diplomats overseas, that's why you have benghazi, the convictions, the embassies are closing down. the ones who create the policy, the ones who create these programs. every one of them is immune from prosecution in the united states. >> sabrina desousa who has brought these complaints to congress and gone through those channels has exhausted those

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means first competing in the am ames, iowa straw poll which is a scam. it is a total scam. a fake wigged pay for votes not a real contest pretending to be a contest. the iowa straw poll costs money to vote. it costs $30 to cast a boll lot. some buy those ballots for people with the understanding that those people will then vote for them and, tah-dah, it's actual vote buying in america in the 21st century. democracy, faked. this is the seriousness with which iowa takes its responsibility of being first in the nation. in picking a new president, right? getting all the attention and political pandering that goes with that status. there's a lot of other places in the country like camden, new jersey, anybody, app lach cha and others that could use the attention in the political process but because iowa is first, iowa gets it all from the

presidential candidates, every time we pick a new president and the straw poll is the first sign of how they handle that great power and that great responsibility. and then come the iowa caucuses. actual election night. the iowa caucuses are run by the parties and not by the state government and this past year on election night, in the all-important first in the nation iowa caucuses to choose a republican nominee to run against president obama, the chairman of the iowa republican party made the announcement late after midnight on the night of the caucuses that mitt romney had won, wow, romney wins iowa, seriously, no, actually a couple weeks later same guy issued a statement saying that mitt romney hadn't actually won. maybe they were like a tie and a couple days later, okay, ran santorum won maybe they think and when it came time to pick delegates they gave most of their delegates to ron paul so, iowa, wow, why are they first?

you tell me but they are first and iowa politicos have always been ready to fight to the death to defend that because it headaches them seem important. the endorsement of an iowa politician is worth more than in another state like kansas or connecticut because iowa is first and so iowa politicians get fought over by all the national brand name politicians of their party. must feel great, right? must feel like a million bucks or maybe like 208,000 bucks. which is allegedly what one republican state senator charged the ron paul campaign to switch his endorsement from bachmann to paul which he did. the allegations were made by the iowa republican, a conservative news site yesterday. the state senator denies it and says the e-mail appears to show his list of demands are utter fabrications. now though the same site published sound of allegedly him talking and fretting about getting paid by ron paul's campaign, via a check made out

to his wife. >> can i tell you what what happened? >> no. >> i kept saying no and my wife was like we need to do this. and then i went to the bathroom and we were in a restaurant and he made it out to my wife. i'm going to give you the check back. >> oh, you are? >> do you think i should or do you think i should hold on to it? i'm not cashing it. >> i understand. >> do you hi i should hold on to it or do you think i should do a deal? should i hold on to it so i think have something over him? >> i don't think i would give it to him, no. >> okay. >> i think you need to sit down with an attorney saying here's what i've done and where am i? he'll probably tell you to shut up. >> i have. i mean i've learned my lesson. >> has now hired a lawyer who says regardless of the tape and the e-mails that